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06/24/06
Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 9 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis: A fantasy musical recounting the adventures of Nurse Klivia and the residents of her somewhat unusual Rest Home. Their nasty landlord and next-door neighbour Mr Boordevol is eager to have them all evicted so that he can repossess the property. When the Home’s resident “crazy inventor”, The... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Loes Luca, Paul Kooij, Paul de Leeuw
Director: Pieter Kramer
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08/16/07
Sweet and innocent to a fault, the wild tangents the movie takes us on ultimately feel strange for the sake of being strange
12/28/04
A campy, brightly colored musical comedy based on a popular '60s Dutch sitcom that's unlike any other film out there.
10/29/04
This nonsensical Dutch movie musical rides on the dubious assumption that camp and infantilism are the same thing.
10/28/04
Top Critic
Styles range from cabaret to barbershop to toe-tapping bubblegum, and the rainy-day serenade at the start nods Cherbourgward, with a soupçon of Low Countries sass.
10/26/04
Top Critic
Director Pieter Kramer successfully reproduces the bright colors and cheerful ambiance of musical comedies of the 1950s and '60s.
10/08/04
At once corny and precious, its humor seems too heavily ethnic to travel well.
10/08/04
Top Critic
This cranky non-Dutchman came to wish the director had cut a couple of tunes: A little of this goes a long way.
10/07/04
Maintains a likable, breezy tone throughout but looks increasingly threadbare of real inspiration or originality as it proceeds.
09/10/04
Top Critic
The characters are all directed to play their goofy expressions for the back row, which might have befitted the boards but is offputting in the close-ups of camera. Moreover, the story is slight.
09/05/04
Neither witty nor inventive enough to hold your interest for its belabored 100-minute running time.
09/04/04
A pleasant enough movie whose overt charm sometimes works against it.
09/03/04
Perhaps it's all in the translation, but Yes Nurse! No Nurse! makes only a so-so musical...[enhanced by] campy, candy-colored design...
09/03/04
The songs are shrill and cloying (if mercifully forgettable), the choreography is embarrassing, and the comedy sets a new global standard for puerility -- and not in a fun way.
08/07/04
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